Re: MegaRAID 3008/3108

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20150603122110.5f267ef8@taliesin-2.local>,
Harry Waddell  <waddell%caravan-epub.com@localhost> wrote:
>On Wed, 3 Jun 2015 18:27:44 +0000 (UTC)
>christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) wrote:
>
>> In article <20150603111042.4fad14b2@taliesin-2.local>,
>> Harry Waddell  <waddell%caravaninfotech.com@localhost> wrote:
>> >On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 16:13:07 +0100 (BST)
>> >Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Anyone working on adding support for SYMBIOS MEGARAID 3108 (0x1000/0x005d) 
>> >> or 3008 (0x1000/0x005f)? These are supported in OpenBSD by the mfii driver 
>> >> which also supports the MEGARAID 2208 (0x1000/0x005b). In NetBSD, the 
>> >> mfi(4) driver was extended to support the 2208 (Thunderbolt) rather than 
>> >> adding a new driver. The 3008/3108 will require another MFI_IOP type 
>> >> (OpenBSD call it 25).
>> >> 
>> >> -- 
>> >> Stephen
>> >> 
>> >
>> >I have a system with this on the motherboard, but I'm dropping an lsi
>> >9261-i8 in 
>> >because the newer cards are not supported. My vendor has told me that
>> >the 9261 is near EOL, 
>> >so it would be really helpful if someone could add support for the newer LSI 
>> >cards. Unfortunately, I don't have much experience in this area.
>> 
>> Shouldn't be too hard to do... As long someone has a card to test...
>> 
>> christos
>> 
>
>I just double checked my invoice and the MB has an embedded 3108
>hooked up to 7 sata and 1 ssd drive ( for cachecade ).
> 
>I don't need to put this into production immediately, so I 
>can test something during the next few days.
>After that, it will be hard  to test with drives hooked up as
>the cables are not the same for it and the 9261. Just seeing if the 
>hw get recognized without drives attached would be easy enough. 
>
>I should be getting two more identical systems in the next few months,
>so I could test it with one of those too. The plan is to put
>netbsd-7 on these, but I could boot a current kernel if needed. 

If Frank can post his patches and we can take a look at the OpenBSD
driver for the I/O performance fix.

christos